Chapter 27 Quiz

The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1750–1914
. Two patterns characterized European politics outside western and central Europe in the period of 1750-1900: the first pattern was _________by European countries.

. A system in which people from one country establish a more or less elaborate administrative system in a conquered overseas territory, accompanied by economic exploitation is referred to as _________.

. By 1750, the chief European rival competing against British commercial monopoly in India were the _________, who were aggressively building up both trade and political power in the southern part of peninsular India.

. For the British East India Company, the evolution of a shadow government in the area around Calcutta in Bengal on the northeast coast would be strategically advantageous in the wake of the collapse of Mughal central power as regional leaders could _________in securing British supremacy in the area.

. In 1757, the battle of _________effectively eliminated the French threat in the subcontinent and consolidated Great Britain's supremacy in India following the treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in 1763.

. The East India Company's influence and control in northern Indian grew at the expense of:

. Many of the East India Company menbecame great admirers of Indian culture and were fond of what was known as "going native," even to the point of occasionally wielding power as local magnates or _________, a term which later came to be generally used to define anyone who acquired a large fortune in India under British rule.

. What British policy softened the blow of conquest?

. By 1830,, many of the Protestant missionaries involved in mission-based reform efforts in India sought to reform India along the same lines they envisioned for Britain, including all but one of the following reforms:

. In the aftermath of disillusionment caused by the wholesale change and reform instigated by British missionaries, the Great Rebellion of 1857, also known by the British as the Sepoy Mutiny and by the Indians as the _________, broke out among the East India Company's Sepoy troops and swiftly turned into a civil war as pro- and anti-British Indian forces clashed across Northern India.

. The period of direct British rule in India following the failure of the First War of Independence, or the Great Rebellion, is known as the British _________.

. At the onset of direct British rule, the British government conducted sweeping reforms to avoid a repeat of the events of 1857, among which were all but one of the following?

. In 1885, the Indian National Congress, the precursor of India's present Congress Party, was first convened with the ongoing mission of _________.

. Australia began its history under British control as a _________.

. Important early commercial interests in Australia included all but one of the following:

. Which of the following does not describe Australia's demographic and economic development in the latter half of the nineteenth century?

. In 1900, Australia finally adopted a federal constitution, making the country the second fully autonomous "dominion" after _________.

. The initial catalyst fueling the imperialist race by European powers in the first half of the nineteenth century had its origins in _________in the late eighteenth century designed to drive the Ottomans back into Asia and convert Constantinople into an Eastern Christian capital.

. After the failure in 1815 of Napoleon's imperial schemes in both Egypt and Europe, _________became the undisputed leading empire in the world and the chief European power to protect Ottoman integrity.

. The international political system that dominated Europe from 1815 to 1871 and which advocated a balance of power among states is referred to as the _________, and it was aimed at preventing any renewed European imperialist goals of the kind Napoleon had pursued.

. The first Anglo-Afghan war in 1838, ushered in the rivalry for supremacy over Central Asia between the British and the Russian Empires, a period otherwise known as the _________.

. Unable to repay the enormous debt incurred from the French-led construction of the _________in 1869, a debt-collection effort which Britain had taken over from France, Egypt was ultimately occupied by a British expeditionary force in 1882.

. Which of the following nations was not an autonomous Ottoman province ruled by its own dynasty?

. The _________was the belief that European colonizers had a duty to extend the benefits of European civilization to "backward" peoples.

. European colonialism on the coast of West Africa after 1885 was an outgrowth of the traditional _________.

. _________was ruled by an Omani sultan and exported cloves on the world market.

. Heirs to the Portuguese spice trade, the _________were the world's undisputed naval power from 1650 to 1750.

. Following the Napoleonic Wars, the Dutch pursued a colonial policy referred to as the _________in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) whereby native subsistence farmers were forced to grow government crops on 20 percent of their land or work for 60 days on Dutch plantations.

. The Spanish built their first trade fort in the Philippines at_________, as a place from which to trade with China after conquering Mexico from the Aztecs.

. The Philippine Islands, named after _________, were claimed for Spain by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.

. The primary spokesman for Filipino nationalism, a movement primarily led by Hispanicized Filipinos of mixed Spanish and indigenous or Chinese descent, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, was _________.

. Spanish colonialism in the Pacific came to an end in 1898 with their defeat in the _________.

. French imperial and colonial involvement in Vietnam began in 1858 under _________.

. The driving force behind Vietnam's early anti-foreign patriotism at the dawn of the twentieth century was _________.

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Painting shows Robert Clive and his troop facing Indian princes. A man is shown sitting on an elephant. Another man is shown taming a horse. A man is shown waving the British flag as a symbolism of victory.


The image above celebrates Robert Clive's victory at the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The battle marked the end of __________ influence in India.

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Photo shows a group of men gathered around the Sphinx.


The image above shows Scottish(British) troops at the Sphinx in 1882. What were to two main reasons that the British occupied Egypt?

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A map shows the European colonial powers in Africa, and their date of establishment. Belgium: Belgian Congo in central Africa, in 1908. Britain: Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast in 1898, and Nigeria in 1914 in northwestern Africa, Egypt in 1882, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1899, British Somaliland, Uganda in 1890, and British East Africa in 1888 in eastern Africa, and Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia in 1911, Southern Rhodesia in 1888, Bechuanaland in 1885 and 1896, Basutoland in 1868, and Swaziland in 1907 in southern Africa. France: French West Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, between 1890s and 1900s in northwestern Africa, French Somaliland in eastern Africa, French Equatorial Africa in north central Africa, Gabon in 1910 and Middle Congo in 1910 in western Africa, and Madagascar. Germany: Cameroon in 1884 in western Africa, German Southwest Africa in 1892 in southwestern Africa, and German East Africa in eastern Africa in 1885. Italy: Libya in 1912 in northern Africa, and Eritrea in 1889 and Italian Somaliland in 1889 in eastern Africa. Portugal: Port Guinea in northwestern Africa, Angola in southwestern Africa, and Portuguese East Africa in southeastern Africa. Spain: Spanish Morocco in 1912, Spanish Sahara in 1912, and Rio de Oro in 1884 in northwestern Africa, and Rio Muni, Annobon, and Fernando Poo in western Africa. The independent states were Liberia and Ethiopia. The Union of South Africa was in the British dominion in 1910. The African resistance and their dates are as follows: Samori between 1884 and 1889 in southwestern French West Africa, Rabih in 1900 in southeastern French West Africa, Bedouin in northern Libya between 1912 and 1931, Mahdists in central Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1882 and 1885, defeat of Italians by Ethiopians in 1896 at Adowa, Buganda in southern Uganda in 1897, Bunyoro between 1890 and 1998 and Tippu Tip between 1891 and 1894 in eastern Belgian Congo, Bakongo in 1913 in northern Angola, Ovimbundu in 1913 in southern Angola, Chelembwe in 1915 in Northern Rhodesia, Herero between 1904 and 1908 and Nama between 1904 and 1906 in southern German southwest Africa, Mashona in 1896 and Ndebele between 1893 and 1896 in Southern Rhodesia, Zulu in 1879 in Swaziland, Bambata in 1906 in Basutoland, Malagasy between 1885 and 1905 in southern Madagascar.


Which are the only two independent countries in Africa?

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